Wheelchair rugby league

Wheelchair Rugby League is the most inclusive and accessible variant of Rugby League for all abilities. 

• Clubs have been set up to improve the physical well-being of players who can’t participate in the running game. 
• The game is quite unique in that it offers both disabled and non-disabled players the opportunity to compete both with and against each other.
• No matter what gender or age all players compete on a level playing field which is created by the use of wheelchairs and some slight adaptations of the rules of Rugby League.
  

A brief overview of the game includes:

• There are five players on each side
• The object of the game is to score tries
• Conversions are scored by kicking, via a volleyball style punch, the ball over the mini-posts from a tee
• Tackles are made in the same way as Tag Rugby by pulling off the attached tag
• Six tackles is the maximum, often followed by a kick (punch) and a change of possession
• Offside, knock-on and in-touch apply just like in the running version of the game
• Everything in the running game is included, apart from scrums, 10 metres become 4 metres, we play for 80 minutes and are immediately recognisable and faithful to the laws of Rugby League